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Originally Posted by peaceridge

Thanks, yes, but I've been told that metered mode sometimes causes other problems in your system. Not sure what they were, but when I read about them last week I decided to just hold up on 10 on my laptop until I see how it all shakes out.

Here's what Microsoft says are possible issues with metered connections:

How does setting my network connection to metered affect my PC?

Any app that relies on an Internet connection to update or display info might be limited in the amount of data it can download or display. You might notice these and other effects:

Windows Update will only download priority updates.

Apps downloading from the Windows Store might be paused.

Start screen tiles might stop updating.

Offline files might not sync automatically.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...sked-questions

Here's some more tips on blocking automatic updates: http://www.askvg.com/fixing-windows-...stall-problem/

Shari